Insights & blogs
Fixed PRICING
From my role at LawyerlinQ, I've had discussions with nearly a hundred GCs over the past few months regarding the procurement of attorney services. In this blog series, I'll share my insights, or "learnings" as we call them internally. This first one focuses on 'fixed pricing'. While everyone claims that fixed pricing is challenging, it turns out to be easier than you think. In this blog I’ll share 3 tips:
Podcast interview with LawyerlinQ founder Marijn Rooijmans
LawyerlinQ founder Marijn Rooijmans was a guest in the dutch podcast series ‘De Bedrijfsjurist’ (ENG: the legal counsel). The podcast itself is in Dutch and features General Counsel and legal ops, professionals. Marijn talks about entrepreneurship in the legal sector. legal tech, and explains the how and why of the LawyerlinQ platform for sourcing external outside counsel.
It's time
when discussing ways to optimize legal spending, most legal departments still heavily rely on long-term arrangements they have made with their panel firms, which usually involve discounts on hourly rates.
It's been that way forever. But it doesn't make sense.
Sure, you work for a big company, so it doesn't come out of your pocket, but how would you feel if you were personally paying the bills?
Where do you get your benchmark data?
As a legal manager, your performance is judged in a variety of ways. Often the satisfaction of your internal clients is decisive, and rightly so. But most legal managers we talk to also want to know how their department is doing compared to others.
But where do you get your benchmark data?
Looking to hire the best freelance legal talent in the Dutch market?
Good freelance legal counsel are in high demand in the Dutch legal market at the moment. In this short post we’ll share some advice on how to hire the best.
Legal sourcing strategy: shop at more than one store!
Why don't legal departments use more technology when outsourcing work to their panel firms? Don’t they care about the budget?
Legal Tech in de polder (English below)
Blogpost in Dutch and English about starting and scaling a legal tech company in the Netherlands, the Dutch Legal Tech market, opportunities for legal tech entrepreneurs in the Netherlands
How to get the most out of your legal flexpool: 5 tips
5 expert tips on how to get the most out of your legal flexpool. LawyerlinQ is the Dutch innovator optimising your legal resourcing.
Legal Craftmanship
LawyerlinQ sponsors the Dutch Independent Legal Award. Hollands election of the most talented independent lawyers.
Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work
We would likt to share this podcast from the HBR Ideacast series. It’s an interview with Harvard Business School, and Boston Consulting Group experts on the rise of on-demand work.
If looking to expand your understanding of what is happening in the market for highly skilled workers, you don’t want to miss the insights these researchers have to offer.